Trade-Ideas: Bill Barrett Corporation (BBG) Is Today's "Perilous Reversal" Stock
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Trade-Ideas LLC identified
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) as a "perilous reversal" (up big yesterday but down big today) candidate. In addition to specific proprietary factors, Trade-Ideas identified Bill Barrett Corporation as such a stock due to the following factors:
- BBG has an average dollar-volume (as measured by average daily share volume multiplied by share price) of $20.2 million.
- BBG has traded 70,495 shares today.
- BBG is down 3.9% today.
- BBG was up 9.3% yesterday.
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More details on BBG:
Bill Barrett Corporation, an independent energy company, acquires, explores for, and develops oil and natural gas resources in the United States. BBG has a PE ratio of 27.5. Currently there are 3 analysts that rate Bill Barrett Corporation a buy, 1 analyst rates it a sell, and 11 rate it a hold.
The average volume for Bill Barrett Corporation has been 2.3 million shares per day over the past 30 days. Bill Barrett has a market cap of $422.7 million and is part of the basic materials sector and energy industry. The stock has a beta of 1.18 and a short float of 23.1% with 4.46 days to cover. Shares are down 18.2% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Wednesday.
Analysis:
rates Bill Barrett Corporation as a
. The company's weaknesses can be seen in multiple areas, such as its generally disappointing historical performance in the stock itself and weak operating cash flow.
Highlights from the ratings report include:
- BBG's stock share price has done very poorly compared to where it was a year ago: Despite any rallies, the net result is that it is down by 59.27%, which is also worse that the performance of the S&P 500 Index. Investors have so far failed to pay much attention to the earnings improvements the company has managed to achieve over the last quarter. Despite the heavy decline in its share price, this stock is still more expensive (when compared to its current earnings) than most other companies in its industry.
- Net operating cash flow has significantly decreased to $30.42 million or 55.89% when compared to the same quarter last year. In addition, when comparing the cash generation rate to the industry average, the firm's growth is significantly lower.
- The company's current return on equity greatly increased when compared to its ROE from the same quarter one year prior. This is a signal of significant strength within the corporation. Compared to other companies in the Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels industry and the overall market, BILL BARRETT CORP's return on equity significantly trails that of both the industry average and the S&P 500.
- BILL BARRETT CORP reported significant earnings per share improvement in the most recent quarter compared to the same quarter a year ago. The company has demonstrated a pattern of positive earnings per share growth over the past two years. However, we anticipate underperformance relative to this pattern in the coming year. During the past fiscal year, BILL BARRETT CORP turned its bottom line around by earning $0.30 versus -$4.06 in the prior year. For the next year, the market is expecting a contraction of 203.3% in earnings (-$0.31 versus $0.30).
- BBG, with its very weak revenue results, has greatly underperformed against the industry average of 19.8%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues plummeted by 52.9%. The declining revenue has not hurt the company's bottom line, with increasing earnings per share.
- You can view the full Bill Barrett Corporation Ratings Report.
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